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     "name": "stdout",
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     "text": [
      "['h#', 'sh', 'iy', 'hv', 'ae', 'dcl', 'y', 'ix', 'dcl', 'd', 'aa', 'kcl', 's', 'ux', 'tcl', 'en', 'gcl', 'g', 'r', 'iy', 's', 'iy', 'w', 'aa', 'sh', 'epi', 'w', 'aa', 'dx', 'ax', 'q', 'ao', 'l', 'y', 'ih', 'ax', 'h#']\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "import nltk#Each item has a phonetic transcription which can be accessed using the phones() method.\n",
    "phonetic = nltk.corpus.timit.phones('dr1-fvmh0/sa1')#timit corpus，dr means dialect  regions；vmho是speaker ID\n",
    "#phones()方法访问音标\n",
    "print(phonetic)\n",
    "\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 4,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "['g', 'r', 'iy1', 's', 'iy']\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "import nltk\n",
    "timitdict = nltk.corpus.timit.timitdict = nltk.corpus.timit.\n",
    "#transcription_dict( ) 词汇标准音标\n",
    "print(timitdict['greasy']) #TIMIT includes a lexicon that provides the canonical pronunciation of every word,\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 5,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "SpeakerInfo(id='VMH0', sex='F', dr='1', use='TRN', recdate='03/11/86', birthdate='01/08/60', ht='5\\'05\"', race='WHT', edu='BS', comments='BEST NEW ENGLAND ACCENT SO FAR')\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "SpeakerInfo=nltk.corpus.timit.spkrinfo('dr1-fvmh0/sa1')#Get the details of a  speaker of recorded utterance in the timit corpus \n",
    "#spkrinfo获取人口学特征，包括性别，教育程度，对其口音的评价，出生日期，地区等\n",
    "print(SpeakerInfo)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 9,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "ename": "AttributeError",
     "evalue": "module 'nltk.translate.metrics' has no attribute 'agreement'",
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      "\u001b[1;31m---------------------------------------------------------------------------\u001b[0m",
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      "\u001b[1;31mAttributeError\u001b[0m: module 'nltk.translate.metrics' has no attribute 'agreement'"
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   "source": [
    "help(nltk.metrics.agreement)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 10,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
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     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "0.0\n",
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      "0.5714285714285714\n"
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   "source": [
    "s1 = \"00000010000000001000000\"#use Kappa coefficient K measures agreement \n",
    "s2 = \"00000001000000010000000\"\n",
    "s3 = \"00010000000000000001000\"\n",
    "print(nltk.windowdiff(s1, s1, 3))#the window had a size of 3. \n",
    "'''\n",
    "#（1）设置的窗口从字符串最左边开始\n",
    "#（2）计算窗口内两个字符串边界的数的差值，差值的绝对值累加（weighted值决定是加1还是差值）\n",
    "#（3）窗口向右移动，跳转2\n",
    "#（4）如果到达最右端，跳出循环\n",
    "#（5）边界的数的差值和/(字符串长度-窗口大小+1），窗口出现的次数\n",
    "'''\n",
    "\n",
    "print(nltk.windowdiff(s1, s2, 3))\n",
    "\n",
    "print(nltk.windowdiff(s2, s3, 3))\n"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 14,
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      "[('sleep', 'a condition of body and mind body ...'), ('walk', 'progress by lifting and setting down each foot ...'), ('wake', 'cease to sleep')]\n",
      "sleep, sleep\n",
      "body: sleep, sleep\n",
      "wake\n",
      "cease: wake\n",
      "sleep\n",
      "condition: sleep\n",
      "walk\n",
      "down: walk\n",
      "walk\n",
      "each: walk\n",
      "walk\n",
      "foot: walk\n",
      "walk\n",
      "lifting: walk\n",
      "sleep\n",
      "mind: sleep\n",
      "walk\n",
      "progress: walk\n",
      "walk\n",
      "setting: walk\n",
      "wake\n",
      "sleep: wake\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "import csv\n",
    "import nltk\n",
    "\n",
    "#CSV格式处理\n",
    "\n",
    "lexicon = csv.reader(open('dict.csv',encoding='utf-8-sig'))\n",
    "'''\n",
    "用csv处理的包读取文件，如果encoding=‘utf-8’,输出中间处理的结果，第一个字符串前面会出现\\ufeff\n",
    "\n",
    "encoding=‘utf-8-sig’\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "在编码/编写时，UTF-8编码的BOM（ Byte Order Mark ）会被当作前缀以三个字节写入。\n",
    "\n",
    "如果前三个字节是UTF-8编码BOM，则在解码/读取时，这些字节将被跳过。\n",
    "'''\n",
    "pairs = [(lexeme, defn) for (lexeme, _, _, defn) in lexicon]\n",
    "print(pairs)\n",
    "lexemes, defns = zip(*pairs)\n",
    "\n",
    "defn_words = set(w for defn in defns for w in defn.split())#[1]\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "idx = nltk.Index((defn_word, lexeme)  #建立词语和词意的索引\n",
    "                 for (lexeme, defn) in pairs#对文本的解释分词和\n",
    "                 for defn_word in nltk.word_tokenize(defn)  \n",
    "                 if len(defn_word) > 3) #舍弃短的短语\n",
    "\n",
    "with open(\"dict.idx\", \"w\") as idx_file:\n",
    "     for word in sorted(idx):\n",
    "         idx_words = ', '.join(idx[word]) \n",
    "         print(idx_words)        \n",
    "         idx_line = \"{}: {}\".format(word, idx_words)\n",
    "         print( idx_line)\n",
    "         print(idx_line, file=idx_file)"
   ]
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      "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n",
      "<?xml-stylesheet type=\"text/css\" href=\"shakes.css\"?>\n",
      "<!-- <!DOCTYPE PLAY SYSTEM \"play.dtd\"> -->\n",
      "\n",
      "<PLAY>\n",
      "<TITLE>The Merchant of Venice</TITLE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<!--\n",
      "\n",
      "<P>Text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.</P>\n",
      "<P>XML markup by Jon Bosak, 1996-1998.</P>\n",
      "<P>XML Styling done by Ajay Juneja, 1999.<P>\n",
      "<P>This work may be freely copied and distributed worldwide.</P>\n",
      "\n",
      "-->\n",
      "\n",
      "<PERSONAE>\n",
      "<TITLE>Dramatis Personae</TITLE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<PERSONA>The DUKE OF VENICE. </PERSONA>\n",
      "\n",
      "<PGROUP>\n",
      "<PERSONA>The PRINCE OF MOROCCO</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>The PRINCE OF ARRAGON</PERSONA>\n",
      "<GRPDESCR>suitors to Portia.</GRPDESCR>\n",
      "</PGROUP>\n",
      "\n",
      "<PERSONA>ANTONIO, a merchant of Venice.</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>BASSANIO, his friend, suitor likewise to Portia.</PERSONA>\n",
      "\n",
      "<PGROUP>\n",
      "<PERSONA>SALANIO</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>SALARINO</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>GRATIANO</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>SALERIO</PERSONA>\n",
      "<GRPDESCR>friends to Antonio and Bassanio.</GRPDESCR>\n",
      "</PGROUP>\n",
      "\n",
      "<PERSONA>LORENZO, in love with Jessica.</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>SHYLOCK, a rich Jew.</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>TUBAL, a Jew, his friend.</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>LAUNCELOT GOBBO, the clown, servant to SHYLOCK. </PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>OLD GOBBO, father to Launcelot. </PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>LEONARDO, servant to BASSANIO.</PERSONA>\n",
      "\n",
      "<PGROUP>\n",
      "<PERSONA>BALTHASAR</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>STEPHANO</PERSONA>\n",
      "<GRPDESCR>servants to PORTIA.</GRPDESCR>\n",
      "</PGROUP>\n",
      "\n",
      "<PERSONA>PORTIA, a rich heiress.</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>NERISSA, her waiting-maid.</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>JESSICA, daughter to SHYLOCK.</PERSONA>\n",
      "<PERSONA>Magnificoes of Venice, Officers of the Court of Justice, Gaoler, Servants to Portia, and other Attendants.</PERSONA>\n",
      "</PERSONAE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCNDESCR>SCENE  Partly at Venice, and partly at Belmont, the seat of PORTIA, on the Continent.</SCNDESCR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<PLAYSUBT>THE MERCHANT OF VENICE</PLAYSUBT>\n",
      "\n",
      "<ACT><TITLE>ACT I</TITLE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Venice. A street.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It wearies me; you say it wearies you;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I am to learn;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That I have much ado to know myself.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your mind is tossing on the ocean;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There, where your argosies with portly sail,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Do overpeer the petty traffickers,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That curtsy to them, do them reverence,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As they fly by them with their woven wings.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The better part of my affections would</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And every object that might make me fear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Would make me sad.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My wind cooling my broth</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Would blow me to an ague, when I thought</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What harm a wind too great at sea might do.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But I should think of shallows and of flats,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To kiss her burial. Should I go to church</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And see the holy edifice of stone,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which touching but my gentle vessel's side,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Would scatter all her spices on the stream,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, in a word, but even now worth this,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To think on this, and shall I lack the thought</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But tell not me; I know, Antonio</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is sad to think upon his merchandise.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon the fortune of this present year:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, then you are in love.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Fie, fie!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Some that will evermore peep through their eyes</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And other of such vinegar aspect</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO, and GRATIANO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>We leave you now with better company.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I would have stay'd till I had made you merry,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If worthier friends had not prevented me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your worth is very dear in my regard.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I take it, your own business calls on you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And you embrace the occasion to depart.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Good morrow, my good lords.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>We'll make our leisures to attend on yours.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Salarino and Salanio</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>We two will leave you: but at dinner-time,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I will not fail you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You look not well, Signior Antonio;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You have too much respect upon the world:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>They lose it that do buy it with much care:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Believe me, you are marvellously changed.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A stage where every man must play a part,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And mine a sad one.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Let me play the fool:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And let my liver rather heat with wine</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I love thee, and it is my love that speaks--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There are a sort of men whose visages</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And do a wilful stillness entertain,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O my Antonio, I do know of these</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That therefore only are reputed wise</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll tell thee more of this another time:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But fish not, with this melancholy bait,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll end my exhortation after dinner.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I must be one of these same dumb wise men,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For Gratiano never lets me speak.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, keep me company but two years moe,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Is that any thing now?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>have them, they are not worth the search.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, tell me now what lady is the same</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That you to-day promised to tell me of?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How much I have disabled mine estate,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By something showing a more swelling port</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than my faint means would grant continuance:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor do I now make moan to be abridged</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From such a noble rate; but my chief care</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is to come fairly off from the great debts</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Wherein my time something too prodigal</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I owe the most, in money and in love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And from your love I have a warranty</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To unburden all my plots and purposes</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How to get clear of all the debts I owe.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And if it stand, as you yourself still do,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Within the eye of honour, be assured,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My purse, my person, my extremest means,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I shot his fellow of the self-same flight</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The self-same way with more advised watch,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To find the other forth, and by adventuring both</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Because what follows is pure innocence.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That which I owe is lost; but if you please</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To shoot another arrow that self way</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As I will watch the aim, or to find both</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or bring your latter hazard back again</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And thankfully rest debtor for the first.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You know me well, and herein spend but time</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To wind about my love with circumstance;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And out of doubt you do me now more wrong</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In making question of my uttermost</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than if you had made waste of all I have:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Then do but say to me what I should do</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That in your knowledge may by me be done,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In Belmont is a lady richly left;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I did receive fair speechless messages:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For the four winds blow in from every coast</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hang on her temples like a golden fleece;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And many Jasons come in quest of her.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O my Antonio, had I but the means</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To hold a rival place with one of them,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I have a mind presages me such thrift,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That I should questionless be fortunate!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Neither have I money nor commodity</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To raise a present sum: therefore go forth;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Try what my credit can in Venice do:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Go, presently inquire, and so will I,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Where money is, and I no question make</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To have it of my trust or for my sake.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II: Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter PORTIA and NERISSA</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>this great world.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>with too much as they that starve with nothing. It</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>competency lives longer.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Good sentences and well pronounced.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>They would be better, if well followed.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>If to do were as easy as to know what were good to</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>do, chapels had been churches and poor men's</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>follows his own instructions: I can easier teach</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>that he hath devised in these three chests of gold,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>warmth is there in your affection towards any of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>these princely suitors that are already come?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>them, I will describe them; and, according to my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>description, level at my affection.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>First, there is the Neapolitan prince.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>talk of his horse; and he makes it a great</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>appropriation to his own good parts, that he can</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>mother played false with a smith.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Then there is the County Palatine.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>philosopher when he grows old, being so full of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>than to either of these. God defend me from these</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>two!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>he! why, he hath a horse better than the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man; if a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>shall never requite him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>of England?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You know I say nothing to him, for he understands</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>nor Italian, and you will come into the court and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>hose in France, his bonnet in Germany and his</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>behavior every where.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>swore he would pay him again when he was able: I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>under for another.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>when he is worst, he is little better than a beast:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>make shift to go without him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>If he should offer to choose, and choose the right</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>casket, you should refuse to perform your father's</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>will, if you should refuse to accept him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>deep glass of rhenish wine on the contrary casket,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>for if the devil be within and that temptation</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>without, I know he will choose it. I will do any</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>thing, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You need not fear, lady, the having any of these</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>lords: they have acquainted me with their</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>you may be won by some other sort than your father's</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>imposition depending on the caskets.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>are so reasonable, for there is not one among them</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>them a fair departure.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yes, yes, it was Bassanio; as I think, he was so called.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>thy praise.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter a Serving-man</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>How now! what news?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>Servant</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>prince his master will be here to-night.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>be glad of his approach: if he have the condition</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nerissa. Sirrah, go before.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Whiles we shut the gates</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE III.  Venice. A public place.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Three thousand ducats; well.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, sir, for three months.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>For three months; well.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Antonio shall become bound; well.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>know your answer?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your answer to that.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Antonio is a good man.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Oh, no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>good man is to have you understand me that he is</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition: he</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Indies; I understand moreover, upon the Rialto, he</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>winds and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>sufficient. Three thousand ducats; I think I may</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>take his bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Be assured you may.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I will be assured I may; and, that I may be assured,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>If it please you to dine with us.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter ANTONIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This is Signior Antonio.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>  How like a fawning publican he looks!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I hate him for he is a Christian,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But more for that in low simplicity</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He lends out money gratis and brings down</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The rate of usance here with us in Venice.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If I can catch him once upon the hip,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Even there where merchants most do congregate,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If I forgive him!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Shylock, do you hear?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am debating of my present store,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, by the near guess of my memory,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I cannot instantly raise up the gross</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Will furnish me. But soft! how many months</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Do you desire?</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>To ANTONIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Rest you fair, good signior;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your worship was the last man in our mouths.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Shylock, although I neither lend nor borrow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By taking nor by giving of excess,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll break a custom. Is he yet possess'd</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How much ye would?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And for three months.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I had forgot; three months; you told me so.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Well then, your bond; and let me see; but hear you;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon advantage.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I do never use it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This Jacob from our holy Abram was,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The third possessor; ay, he was the third--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And what of him? did he take interest?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No, not take interest, not, as you would say,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Directly interest: mark what Jacob did.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When Laban and himself were compromised</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In the end of autumn turned to the rams,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, when the work of generation was</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Between these woolly breeders in the act,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, in the doing of the deed of kind,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Who then conceiving did in eaning time</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A thing not in his power to bring to pass,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Was this inserted to make interest good?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But note me, signior.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Mark you this, Bassanio,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>An evil soul producing holy witness</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A goodly apple rotten at the heart:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Three months from twelve; then, let me see; the rate--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Signior Antonio, many a time and oft</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In the Rialto you have rated me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>About my moneys and my usances:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And all for use of that which is mine own.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Well then, it now appears you need my help:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Go to, then; you come to me, and you say</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You, that did void your rheum upon my beard</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Over your threshold: moneys is your suit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What should I say to you? Should I not say</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Hath a dog money? is it possible</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You spurn'd me such a day; another time</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You call'd me dog; and for these courtesies</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll lend you thus much moneys'?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am as like to call thee so again,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As to thy friends; for when did friendship take</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A breed for barren metal of his friend?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But lend it rather to thine enemy,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Exact the penalty.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, look you, how you storm!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would be friends with you and have your love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Supply your present wants and take no doit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This is kind I offer.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This were kindness.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This kindness will I show.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Go with me to a notary, seal me there</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your single bond; and, in a merry sport,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you repay me not on such a day,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In such a place, such sum or sums as are</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be nominated for an equal pound</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In what part of your body pleaseth me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And say there is much kindness in the Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You shall not seal to such a bond for me:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll rather dwell in my necessity.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, fear not, man; I will not forfeit it:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Within these two months, that's a month before</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This bond expires, I do expect return</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of thrice three times the value of this bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O father Abram, what these Christians are,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The thoughts of others! Pray you, tell me this;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If he should break his day, what should I gain</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By the exaction of the forfeiture?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A pound of man's flesh taken from a man</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is not so estimable, profitable neither,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To buy his favour, I extend this friendship:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yes Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Then meet me forthwith at the notary's;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Give him direction for this merry bond,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I will go and purse the ducats straight,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>See to my house, left in the fearful guard</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of an unthrifty knave, and presently</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will be with you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Hie thee, gentle Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit Shylock</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Come on: in this there can be no dismay;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My ships come home a month before the day.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "</ACT>\n",
      "\n",
      "<ACT><TITLE>ACT II</TITLE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF MOROCCO\n",
      "and his train; PORTIA, NERISSA, and others\n",
      "attending</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>MOROCCO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Mislike me not for my complexion,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Bring me the fairest creature northward born,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And let us make incision for your love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath fear'd the valiant: by my love I swear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The best-regarded virgins of our clime</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Have loved it too: I would not change this hue,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In terms of choice I am not solely led</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By nice direction of a maiden's eyes;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Besides, the lottery of my destiny</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Bars me the right of voluntary choosing:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But if my father had not scanted me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And hedged me by his wit, to yield myself</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>His wife who wins me by that means I told you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As any comer I have look'd on yet</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For my affection.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>MOROCCO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Even for that I thank you:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore, I pray you, lead me to the caskets</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To try my fortune. By this scimitar</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If Hercules and Lichas play at dice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which is the better man, the greater throw</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So is Alcides beaten by his page;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And so may I, blind fortune leading me,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Miss that which one unworthier may attain,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And die with grieving.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You must take your chance,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And either not attempt to choose at all</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Never to speak to lady afterward</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In way of marriage: therefore be advised.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>MOROCCO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>First, forward to the temple: after dinner</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your hazard shall be made.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>MOROCCO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Good fortune then!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To make me blest or cursed'st among men.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Cornets, and exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II.  Venice. A street.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter LAUNCELOT</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>tempts me saying to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away. My</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Launcelot Gobbo; do not run; scorn running with thy</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>pack: 'Via!' says the fiend; 'away!' says the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fiend; 'for the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>says the fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>man's son,' or rather an honest woman's son; for,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>indeed, my father did something smack, something</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>grow to, he had a kind of taste; well, my conscience</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>says 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fiend. 'Budge not,' says my conscience.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>say I, 'you counsel well:' to be ruled by my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>who, God bless the mark, is a kind of devil; and, to</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>friendly counsel: I will run, fiend; my heels are</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>at your command; I will run.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter Old GOBBO, with a basket</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Master young man, you, I pray you, which is the way</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>to master Jew's?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>  O heavens, this is my true-begotten father!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>knows me not: I will try confusions with him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Master young gentleman, I pray you, which is the way</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>to master Jew's?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>at the next turning of all, on your left; marry, at</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>down indirectly to the Jew's house.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>you tell me whether one Launcelot,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>that dwells with him, dwell with him or no?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Talk you of young Master Launcelot?</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Mark me now; now will I raise the waters. Talk you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>of young Master Launcelot?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No master, sir, but a poor man's son: his father,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>though I say it, is an honest exceeding poor man</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>and, God be thanked, well to live.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, let his father be what a' will, we talk of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>young Master Launcelot.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your worship's friend and Launcelot, sir.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>talk you of young Master Launcelot?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Of Launcelot, an't please your mastership.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of Master</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Launcelot, father; for the young gentleman,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>according to Fates and Destinies and such odd</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>learning, is indeed deceased, or, as you would say</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>in plain terms, gone to heaven.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Marry, God forbid! the boy was the very staff of my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>age, my very prop.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post, a staff or</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>a prop? Do you know me, father?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Alack the day, I know you not, young gentleman:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>but, I pray you, tell me, is my boy, God rest his</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>soul, alive or dead?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Do you not know me, father?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Alack, sir, I am sand-blind; I know you not.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>your son: give me your blessing: truth will come</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man's son</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>may, but at the length truth will out.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure you are not</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Launcelot, my boy.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Pray you, let's have no more fooling about it, but</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>give me your blessing: I am Launcelot, your boy</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>that was, your son that is, your child that shall</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>be.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I cannot think you are my son.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I know not what I shall think of that: but I am</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>wife is my mother.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Her name is Margery, indeed: I'll be sworn, if thou</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>be Launcelot, thou art mine own flesh and blood.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lord worshipped might he be! what a beard hast thou</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>It should seem, then, that Dobbin's tail grows</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>backward: I am sure he had more hair of his tail</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>than I have of my face when I last saw him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Lord, how art thou changed! How dost thou and thy</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>master agree? I have brought him a present. How</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'gree you now?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, well: but, for mine own part, as I have set</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>up my rest to run away, so I will not rest till I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>have run some ground. My master's a very Jew: give</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>him a present! give him a halter: I am famished in</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>his service; you may tell every finger I have with</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>my ribs. Father, I am glad you are come: give me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>your present to one Master Bassanio, who, indeed,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>gives rare new liveries: if I serve not him, I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>will run as far as God has any ground. O rare</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fortune! here comes the man: to him, father; for I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>am a Jew, if I serve the Jew any longer.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter BASSANIO, with LEONARDO and other followers</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You may do so; but let it be so hasted that supper</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>these letters delivered; put the liveries to making,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit a Servant</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>To him, father.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>God bless your worship!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Gramercy! wouldst thou aught with me?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here's my son, sir, a poor boy,--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew's man; that</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>would, sir, as my father shall specify--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Indeed, the short and the long is, I serve the Jew,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>and have a desire, as my father shall specify--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>His master and he, saving your worship's reverence,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>are scarce cater-cousins--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew, having</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>done me wrong, doth cause me, as my father, being, I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>hope, an old man, shall frutify unto you--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>your worship, and my suit is--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In very brief, the suit is impertinent to myself, as</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>your worship shall know by this honest old man; and,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>though I say it, though old man, yet poor man, my father.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>One speak for both. What would you?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Serve you, sir.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GOBBO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That is the very defect of the matter, sir.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I know thee well; thou hast obtain'd thy suit:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And hath preferr'd thee, if it be preferment</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To leave a rich Jew's service, to become</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The follower of so poor a gentleman.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The old proverb is very well parted between my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>God, sir, and he hath enough.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou speak'st it well. Go, father, with thy son.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Take leave of thy old master and inquire</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My lodging out. Give him a livery</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>More guarded than his fellows': see it done.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Father, in. I cannot get a service, no; I have</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>ne'er a tongue in my head. Well, if any man in</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Italy have a fairer table which doth offer to swear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>upon a book, I shall have good fortune. Go to,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>here's a simple line of life: here's a small trifle</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>of wives: alas, fifteen wives is nothing! eleven</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>man: and then to 'scape drowning thrice, and to be</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>here are simple scapes. Well, if Fortune be a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>woman, she's a good wench for this gear. Father,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>come; I'll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Launcelot and Old Gobbo</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>These things being bought and orderly bestow'd,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Return in haste, for I do feast to-night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My best-esteem'd acquaintance: hie thee, go.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LEONARDO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My best endeavours shall be done herein.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter GRATIANO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Where is your master?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LEONARDO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yonder, sir, he walks.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Signior Bassanio!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Gratiano!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I have a suit to you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You have obtain'd it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You must not deny me: I must go with you to Belmont.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Parts that become thee happily enough</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But where thou art not known, why, there they show</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To allay with some cold drops of modesty</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behavior</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I be misconstrued in the place I go to,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And lose my hopes.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Signior Bassanio, hear me:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If I do not put on a sober habit,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Talk with respect and swear but now and then,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thus with my hat, and sigh and say 'amen,'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Use all the observance of civility,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Like one well studied in a sad ostent</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To please his grandam, never trust me more.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, we shall see your bearing.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By what we do to-night.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No, that were pity:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would entreat you rather to put on</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That purpose merriment. But fare you well:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I have some business.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And I must to Lorenzo and the rest:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But we will visit you at supper-time.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE III.  The same. A room in SHYLOCK'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter JESSICA and LAUNCELOT</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Give him this letter; do it secretly;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And so farewell: I would not have my father</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>See me in talk with thee.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue. Most beautiful</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>pagan, most sweet Jew! if a Christian did not play</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the knave and get thee, I am much deceived. But,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>adieu: these foolish drops do something drown my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>manly spirit: adieu.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Farewell, good Launcelot.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit Launcelot</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Alack, what heinous sin is it in me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To be ashamed to be my father's child!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But though I am a daughter to his blood,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Become a Christian and thy loving wife.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE IV.  The same. A street.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter GRATIANO, LORENZO, SALARINO, and SALANIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, we will slink away in supper-time,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Disguise us at my lodging and return,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>All in an hour.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>We have not made good preparation.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>We have not spoke us yet of torchbearers.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And better in my mind not undertook.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tis now but four o'clock: we have two hours</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To furnish us.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter LAUNCELOT, with a letter</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Friend Launcelot, what's the news?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>An it shall please you to break up</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>this, it shall seem to signify.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And whiter than the paper it writ on</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is the fair hand that writ.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Love-news, in faith.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>By your leave, sir.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Whither goest thou?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Marry, sir, to bid my old master the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Jew to sup to-night with my new master the Christian.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will not fail her; speak it privately.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Go, gentlemen,</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit Launcelot</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I am provided of a torch-bearer.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And so will I.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Meet me and Gratiano</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tis good we do so.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt SALARINO and SALANIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Was not that letter from fair Jessica?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How I shall take her from her father's house,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What page's suit she hath in readiness.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It will be for his gentle daughter's sake:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And never dare misfortune cross her foot,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unless she do it under this excuse,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That she is issue to a faithless Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE V.  The same. Before SHYLOCK'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter SHYLOCK and LAUNCELOT</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What, Jessica!--thou shalt not gormandise,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As thou hast done with me:--What, Jessica!--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out;--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, Jessica, I say!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, Jessica!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your worship was wont to tell me that</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I could do nothing without bidding.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter Jessica</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Call you? what is your will?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I am not bid for love; they flatter me:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Look to my house. I am right loath to go:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For I did dream of money-bags to-night.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I beseech you, sir, go: my young master doth expect</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>your reproach.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>So do I his.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>An they have conspired together, I will not say you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>shall see a masque; but if you do, then it was not</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>year, in the afternoon.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Clamber not you up to the casements then,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor thrust your head into the public street</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Say I will come.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I will go before, sir. Mistress, look out at</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>window, for all this, There will come a Christian</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>boy, will be worth a Jewess' eye.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>His words were 'Farewell mistress;' nothing else.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>More than the wild-cat: drones hive not with me;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore I part with him, and part with him</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To one that would have him help to waste</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>His borrow'd purse. Well, Jessica, go in;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Perhaps I will return immediately:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Fast bind, fast find;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I have a father, you a daughter, lost.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE VI.  The same.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter GRATIANO and SALARINO, masqued</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Desired us to make stand.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>His hour is almost past.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For lovers ever run before the clock.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To keep obliged faith unforfeited!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That ever holds: who riseth from a feast</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With that keen appetite that he sits down?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Where is the horse that doth untread again</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>His tedious measures with the unbated fire</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That he did pace them first? All things that are,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How like a younker or a prodigal</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How like the prodigal doth she return,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lean, rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here comes Lorenzo: more of this hereafter.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter LORENZO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Not I, but my affairs, have made you wait:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When you shall please to play the thieves for wives,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll watch as long for you then. Approach;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Here dwells my father Jew. Ho! who's within?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter JESSICA, above, in boy's clothes</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Lorenzo, and thy love.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For who love I so much? And now who knows</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For I am much ashamed of my exchange:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But love is blind and lovers cannot see</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The pretty follies that themselves commit;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For if they could, Cupid himself would blush</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To see me thus transformed to a boy.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Descend, for you must be my torchbearer.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What, must I hold a candle to my shames?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>They in themselves, good-sooth, are too too light.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I should be obscured.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>So are you, sweet,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But come at once;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For the close night doth play the runaway,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I will make fast the doors, and gild myself</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With some more ducats, and be with you straight.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit above</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Now, by my hood, a Gentile and no Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Beshrew me but I love her heartily;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For she is wise, if I can judge of her,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And true she is, as she hath proved herself,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shall she be placed in my constant soul.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter JESSICA, below</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>What, art thou come? On, gentlemen; away!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Our masquing mates by this time for us stay.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit with Jessica and Salarino</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter ANTONIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Who's there?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Signior Antonio!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tis nine o'clock: our friends all stay for you.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No masque to-night: the wind is come about;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Bassanio presently will go aboard:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I have sent twenty out to seek for you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am glad on't: I desire no more delight</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than to be under sail and gone to-night.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE VII.  Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Flourish of cornets. Enter PORTIA, with the\n",
      "PRINCE OF MOROCCO, and their trains</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Go draw aside the curtains and discover</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The several caskets to this noble prince.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Now make your choice.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>MOROCCO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire;'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The second, silver, which this promise carries,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves;'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How shall I know if I do choose the right?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The one of them contains my picture, prince:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you choose that, then I am yours withal.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>MOROCCO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Some god direct my judgment! Let me see;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will survey the inscriptions back again.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What says this leaden casket?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Must give: for what? for lead? hazard for lead?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This casket threatens. Men that hazard all</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Do it in hope of fair advantages:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What says the silver with her virgin hue?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As much as he deserves! Pause there, Morocco,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And weigh thy value with an even hand:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If thou be'st rated by thy estimation,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou dost deserve enough; and yet enough</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>May not extend so far as to the lady:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And yet to be afeard of my deserving</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Were but a weak disabling of myself.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As much as I deserve! Why, that's the lady:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In graces and in qualities of breeding;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But more than these, in love I do deserve.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What if I stray'd no further, but chose here?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let's see once more this saying graved in gold</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, that's the lady; all the world desires her;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From the four corners of the earth they come,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of wide Arabia are as thoroughfares now</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For princes to come view fair Portia:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To stop the foreign spirits, but they come,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>One of these three contains her heavenly picture.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To think so base a thought: it were too gross</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or shall I think in silver she's immured,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Was set in worse than gold. They have in England</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A coin that bears the figure of an angel</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But here an angel in a golden bed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lies all within. Deliver me the key:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>There, take it, prince; and if my form lie there,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Then I am yours.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>He unlocks the golden casket</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>MOROCCO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O hell! what have we here?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A carrion Death, within whose empty eye</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>All that glitters is not gold;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Often have you heard that told:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Many a man his life hath sold</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But my outside to behold:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Gilded tombs do worms enfold.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Had you been as wise as bold,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Young in limbs, in judgment old,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your answer had not been inscroll'd:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Fare you well; your suit is cold.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Cold, indeed; and labour lost:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To take a tedious leave: thus losers part.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit with his train. Flourish of cornets</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let all of his complexion choose me so.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE VIII.  Venice. A street.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter SALARINO and SALANIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With him is Gratiano gone along;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He came too late, the ship was under sail:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But there the duke was given to understand</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That in a gondola were seen together</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Besides, Antonio certified the duke</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>They were not with Bassanio in his ship.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I never heard a passion so confused,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So strange, outrageous, and so variable,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.'</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Let good Antonio look he keep his day,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or he shall pay for this.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Marry, well remember'd.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Who told me, in the narrow seas that part</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The French and English, there miscarried</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A vessel of our country richly fraught:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I thought upon Antonio when he told me;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And wish'd in silence that it were not his.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You were best to tell Antonio what you hear;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Bassanio told him he would make some speed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But stay the very riping of the time;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let it not enter in your mind of love:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To courtship and such fair ostents of love</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As shall conveniently become you there:'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And even there, his eye being big with tears,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And with affection wondrous sensible</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I think he only loves the world for him.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray thee, let us go and find him out</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And quicken his embraced heaviness</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With some delight or other.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Do we so.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE IX.  Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter NERISSA with a Servitor</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Quick, quick, I pray thee; draw the curtain straight:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And comes to his election presently.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF ARRAGON,\n",
      "PORTIA, and their trains</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you choose that wherein I am contain'd,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You must be gone from hence immediately.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ARRAGON</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>First, never to unfold to any one</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I fail</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of the right casket, never in my life</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To woo a maid in way of marriage: Lastly,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If I do fail in fortune of my choice,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Immediately to leave you and be gone.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>To these injunctions every one doth swear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That comes to hazard for my worthless self.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ARRAGON</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And so have I address'd me. Fortune now</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To my heart's hope! Gold; silver; and base lead.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You shall look fairer, ere I give or hazard.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What says the golden chest? ha! let me see:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What many men desire! that 'many' may be meant</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By the fool multitude, that choose by show,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Builds in the weather on the outward wall,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Even in the force and road of casualty.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will not choose what many men desire,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Because I will not jump with common spirits</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Tell me once more what title thou dost bear:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves:'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And well said too; for who shall go about</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To cozen fortune and be honourable</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To wear an undeserved dignity.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O, that estates, degrees and offices</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How many then should cover that stand bare!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How many be commanded that command!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How much low peasantry would then be glean'd</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From the true seed of honour! and how much honour</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To be new-varnish'd! Well, but to my choice:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And instantly unlock my fortunes here.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>He opens the silver casket</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Too long a pause for that which you find there.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ARRAGON</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How much unlike art thou to Portia!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is that my prize? are my deserts no better?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>To offend, and judge, are distinct offices</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And of opposed natures.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ARRAGON</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What is here?</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>The fire seven times tried this:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Seven times tried that judgment is,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That did never choose amiss.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Some there be that shadows kiss;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Such have but a shadow's bliss:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There be fools alive, I wis,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Silver'd o'er; and so was this.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Take what wife you will to bed,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will ever be your head:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So be gone: you are sped.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Still more fool I shall appear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By the time I linger here</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With one fool's head I came to woo,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But I go away with two.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Patiently to bear my wroth.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Arragon and train</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Thus hath the candle singed the moth.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The ancient saying is no heresy,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter a Servant</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>Servant</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Where is my lady?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here: what would my lord?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>Servant</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Madam, there is alighted at your gate</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A young Venetian, one that comes before</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To signify the approaching of his lord;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So likely an ambassador of love:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A day in April never came so sweet,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To show how costly summer was at hand,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No more, I pray thee: I am half afeard</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Come, come, Nerissa; for I long to see</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Bassanio, lord Love, if thy will it be!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "</ACT>\n",
      "\n",
      "<ACT><TITLE>ACT III</TITLE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Venice. A street.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter SALANIO and SALARINO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Now, what news on the Rialto?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd that Antonio hath</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Report be an honest woman of her word.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>wept for the death of a third husband. But it is</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>to keep his name company!--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Come, the full stop.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>lost a ship.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I would it might prove the end of his losses.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter SHYLOCK</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>How now, Shylock! what news among the merchants?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>daughter's flight.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That's certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>that made the wings she flew withal.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>to leave the dam.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>She is damned for it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My own flesh and blood to rebel!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>There is more difference between thy flesh and hers</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>than there is between red wine and rhenish. But</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>loss at sea or no?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Rialto; a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the mart; let him look to his bond: he was wont to</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>call me usurer; let him look to his bond: he was</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>look to his bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>his flesh: what's that good for?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>to the same diseases, healed by the same means,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>will better the instruction.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter a Servant</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>Servant</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>desires to speak with you both.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>We have been up and down to seek him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter TUBAL</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt SALANIO, SALARINO, and Servant</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa? hast thou</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>found my daughter?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>TUBAL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>her coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I know</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>not what's spent in the search: why, thou loss upon</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>find the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>but of my shedding.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>TUBAL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>heard in Genoa,--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>TUBAL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>TUBAL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>ha, ha! where? in Genoa?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>TUBAL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>night fourscore ducats.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fourscore ducats!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>TUBAL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>company to Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am very glad of it: I'll plague him; I'll torture</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>him: I am glad of it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>TUBAL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>One of them showed me a ring that he had of your</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>daughter for a monkey.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>TUBAL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>But Antonio is certainly undone.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>me an officer; bespeak him a fortnight before. I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>will have the heart of him, if he forfeit; for, were</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>he out of Venice, I can make what merchandise I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>will. Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II.  Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter BASSANIO, PORTIA, GRATIANO, NERISSA, and\n",
      "Attendants</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There's something tells me, but it is not love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would not lose you; and you know yourself,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hate counsels not in such a quality.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But lest you should not understand me well,--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would detain you here some month or two</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Before you venture for me. I could teach you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So will I never be: so may you miss me;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>One half of me is yours, the other half yours,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And so all yours. O, these naughty times</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Put bars between the owners and their rights!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To eke it and to draw it out in length,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To stay you from election.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Let me choose</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For as I am, I live upon the rack.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What treason there is mingled with your love.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>None but that ugly treason of mistrust,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There may as well be amity and life</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Where men enforced do speak anything.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well then, confess and live.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>'Confess' and 'love'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Had been the very sum of my confession:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O happy torment, when my torturer</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Doth teach me answers for deliverance!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But let me to my fortune and the caskets.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you do love me, you will find me out.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let music sound while he doth make his choice;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Fading in music: that the comparison</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And watery death-bed for him. He may win;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And what is music then? Then music is</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Even as the flourish when true subjects bow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To a new-crowned monarch: such it is</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As are those dulcet sounds in break of day</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With no less presence, but with much more love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than young Alcides, when he did redeem</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With bleared visages, come forth to view</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The issue of the exploit. Go, Hercules!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Live thou, I live: with much, much more dismay</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I view the fight than thou that makest the fray.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Music, whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<SUBHEAD>SONG.</SUBHEAD>\n",
      "<LINE>Tell me where is fancy bred,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or in the heart, or in the head?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How begot, how nourished?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Reply, reply.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It is engender'd in the eyes,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With gazing fed; and fancy dies</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In the cradle where it lies.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let us all ring fancy's knell</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll begin it,--Ding, dong, bell.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ALL</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ding, dong, bell.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>So may the outward shows be least themselves:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The world is still deceived with ornament.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Obscures the show of evil? In religion,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What damned error, but some sober brow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Will bless it and approve it with a text,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There is no vice so simple but assumes</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Some mark of virtue on his outward parts:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And these assume but valour's excrement</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To render them redoubted! Look on beauty,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which therein works a miracle in nature,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Making them lightest that wear most of it:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So are those crisped snaky golden locks</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon supposed fairness, often known</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To be the dowry of a second head,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thus ornament is but the guiled shore</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The seeming truth which cunning times put on</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And here choose I; joy be the consequence!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>  How all the other passions fleet to air,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For fear I surfeit.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What find I here?</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Opening the leaden casket</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demi-god</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Seem they in motion? Here are sever'd lips,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The painter plays the spider and hath woven</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Faster than gnats in cobwebs; but her eyes,--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How could he see to do them? having made one,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Methinks it should have power to steal both his</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And leave itself unfurnish'd. Yet look, how far</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In underprizing it, so far this shadow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The continent and summary of my fortune.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>You that choose not by the view,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Chance as fair and choose as true!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Since this fortune falls to you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be content and seek no new,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you be well pleased with this</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And hold your fortune for your bliss,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Turn you where your lady is</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And claim her with a loving kiss.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I come by note, to give and to receive.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Like one of two contending in a prize,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hearing applause and universal shout,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Whether these pearls of praise be his or no;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So, thrice fair lady, stand I, even so;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As doubtful whether what I see be true,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Such as I am: though for myself alone</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would not be ambitious in my wish,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To wish myself much better; yet, for you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would be trebled twenty times myself;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That only to stand high in your account,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I might in virtue, beauties, livings, friends,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Exceed account; but the full sum of me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Happy in this, she is not yet so old</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But she may learn; happier than this,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>She is not bred so dull but she can learn;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Commits itself to yours to be directed,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As from her lord, her governor, her king.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Myself and what is mine to you and yours</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is now converted: but now I was the lord</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Queen o'er myself: and even now, but now,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This house, these servants and this same myself</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which when you part from, lose, or give away,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let it presage the ruin of your love</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And be my vantage to exclaim on you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Madam, you have bereft me of all words,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Only my blood speaks to you in my veins;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And there is such confusion in my powers,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As after some oration fairly spoke</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By a beloved prince, there doth appear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Among the buzzing pleased multitude;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Where every something, being blent together,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Express'd and not express'd. But when this ring</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My lord and lady, it is now our time,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To cry, good joy: good joy, my lord and lady!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I wish you all the joy that you can wish;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For I am sure you can wish none from me:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And when your honours mean to solemnize</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Even at that time I may be married too.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I thank your lordship, you have got me one.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You loved, I loved for intermission.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No more pertains to me, my lord, than you.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your fortune stood upon the casket there,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And so did mine too, as the matter falls;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For wooing here until I sweat again,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And sweating until my very roof was dry</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With oaths of love, at last, if promise last,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I got a promise of this fair one here</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To have her love, provided that your fortune</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Achieved her mistress.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Is this true, Nerissa?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yes, faith, my lord.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Our feast shall be much honour'd in your marriage.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What, and stake down?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No; we shall ne'er win at that sport, and stake down.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel? What,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>and my old Venetian friend Salerio?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter LORENZO, JESSICA, and SALERIO, a Messenger\n",
      "from Venice</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If that the youth of my new interest here</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Have power to bid you welcome. By your leave,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I bid my very friends and countrymen,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Sweet Portia, welcome.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>So do I, my lord:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>They are entirely welcome.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I thank your honour. For my part, my lord,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My purpose was not to have seen you here;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But meeting with Salerio by the way,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He did entreat me, past all saying nay,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To come with him along.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALERIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I did, my lord;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I have reason for it. Signior Antonio</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Commends him to you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Gives Bassanio a letter</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ere I ope his letter,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALERIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor well, unless in mind: his letter there</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Will show you his estate.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nerissa, cheer yon stranger; bid her welcome.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your hand, Salerio: what's the news from Venice?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I know he will be glad of our success;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALERIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That steals the colour from Bassanio's cheek:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Could turn so much the constitution</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With leave, Bassanio: I am half yourself,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I must freely have the half of anything</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That this same paper brings you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O sweet Portia,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That ever blotted paper! Gentle lady,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When I did first impart my love to you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I freely told you, all the wealth I had</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And then I told you true: and yet, dear lady,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Rating myself at nothing, you shall see</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How much I was a braggart. When I told you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My state was nothing, I should then have told you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That I was worse than nothing; for, indeed,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I have engaged myself to a dear friend,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The paper as the body of my friend,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And every word in it a gaping wound,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Have all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From Lisbon, Barbary and India?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of merchant-marring rocks?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALERIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Not one, my lord.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Besides, it should appear, that if he had</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The present money to discharge the Jew,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He would not take it. Never did I know</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A creature, that did bear the shape of man,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So keen and greedy to confound a man:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He plies the duke at morning and at night,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And doth impeach the freedom of the state,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If they deny him justice: twenty merchants,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The duke himself, and the magnificoes</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But none can drive him from the envious plea</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of forfeiture, of justice and his bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>When I was with him I have heard him swear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That he would rather have Antonio's flesh</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than twenty times the value of the sum</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That he did owe him: and I know, my lord,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If law, authority and power deny not,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It will go hard with poor Antonio.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In doing courtesies, and one in whom</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The ancient Roman honour more appears</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than any that draws breath in Italy.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What sum owes he the Jew?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>For me three thousand ducats.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What, no more?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Double six thousand, and then treble that,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Before a friend of this description</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>First go with me to church and call me wife,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And then away to Venice to your friend;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For never shall you lie by Portia's side</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To pay the petty debt twenty times over:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When it is paid, bring your true friend along.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My maid Nerissa and myself meantime</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Will live as maids and widows. Come, away!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For you shall hence upon your wedding-day:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But let me hear the letter of your friend.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE><STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR>  Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>very low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit; and since</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>in paying it, it is impossible I should live, all</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>debts are cleared between you and I, if I might but</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>see you at my death. Notwithstanding, use your</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>pleasure: if your love do not persuade you to come,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>let not my letter.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Since I have your good leave to go away,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will make haste: but, till I come again,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE III.  Venice. A street.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter SHYLOCK, SALARINO, ANTONIO, and Gaoler</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Gaoler, look to him: tell not me of mercy;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This is the fool that lent out money gratis:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Gaoler, look to him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Hear me yet, good Shylock.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll have my bond; speak not against my bond:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To come abroad with him at his request.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray thee, hear me speak.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To Christian intercessors. Follow not;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll have no speaking: I will have my bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>It is the most impenetrable cur</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That ever kept with men.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Let him alone:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He seeks my life; his reason well I know:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Many that have at times made moan to me;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore he hates me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALARINO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am sure the duke</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The duke cannot deny the course of law:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For the commodity that strangers have</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With us in Venice, if it be denied,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Will much impeach the justice of his state;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Since that the trade and profit of the city</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>These griefs and losses have so bated me,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To-morrow to my bloody creditor.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, gaoler, on. Pray God, Bassanio come</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE IV.  Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter PORTIA, NERISSA, LORENZO, JESSICA, and\n",
      "BALTHASAR</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Madam, although I speak it in your presence,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You have a noble and a true conceit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of godlike amity; which appears most strongly</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In bearing thus the absence of your lord.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But if you knew to whom you show this honour,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How true a gentleman you send relief,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How dear a lover of my lord your husband,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I know you would be prouder of the work</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than customary bounty can enforce you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I never did repent for doing good,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor shall not now: for in companions</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That do converse and waste the time together,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Whose souls do bear an equal yoke Of love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There must be needs a like proportion</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of lineaments, of manners and of spirit;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which makes me think that this Antonio,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Being the bosom lover of my lord,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How little is the cost I have bestow'd</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In purchasing the semblance of my soul</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From out the state of hellish misery!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This comes too near the praising of myself;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore no more of it: hear other things.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lorenzo, I commit into your hands</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The husbandry and manage of my house</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Until my lord's return: for mine own part,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To live in prayer and contemplation,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Only attended by Nerissa here,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Until her husband and my lord's return:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There is a monastery two miles off;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And there will we abide. I do desire you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Not to deny this imposition;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The which my love and some necessity</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Now lays upon you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Madam, with all my heart;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I shall obey you in all fair commands.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My people do already know my mind,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And will acknowledge you and Jessica</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And so farewell, till we shall meet again.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I wish your ladyship all heart's content.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To wish it back on you: fare you well Jessica.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Now, Balthasar,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As I have ever found thee honest-true,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And use thou all the endeavour of a man</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In speed to Padua: see thou render this</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Into my cousin's hand, Doctor Bellario;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, look, what notes and garments he doth give thee,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unto the tranect, to the common ferry</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But get thee gone: I shall be there before thee.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Madam, I go with all convenient speed.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Before they think of us.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Shall they see us?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>They shall, Nerissa; but in such a habit,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That they shall think we are accomplished</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When we are both accoutred like young men,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And wear my dagger with the braver grace,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And speak between the change of man and boy</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Into a manly stride, and speak of frays</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How honourable ladies sought my love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which I denying, they fell sick and died;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I could not do withal; then I'll repent,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And wish for all that, that I had not killed them;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That men shall swear I have discontinued school</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which I will practise.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, shall we turn to men?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Fie, what a question's that,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When I am in my coach, which stays for us</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>At the park gate; and therefore haste away,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For we must measure twenty miles to-day.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE V.  The same. A garden.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter LAUNCELOT and JESSICA</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>promise ye, I fear you. I was always plain with</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>therefore be of good cheer, for truly I think you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>you any good; and that is but a kind of bastard</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>hope neither.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And what hope is that, I pray thee?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>not, that you are not the Jew's daughter.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>sins of my mother should be visited upon me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>mother: thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>fall into Charybdis, your mother: well, you are</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>gone both ways.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Christian.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Truly, the more to blame he: we were Christians</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>enow before; e'en as many as could well live, one by</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>another. This making Christians will raise the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>price of hogs: if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter LORENZO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say: here he comes.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, if</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>you thus get my wife into corners.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo: Launcelot and I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>are out. He tells me flatly, there is no mercy for</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>me in heaven, because I am a Jew's daughter: and he</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>says, you are no good member of the commonwealth,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>for in converting Jews to Christians, you raise the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>price of pork.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>you can the getting up of the negro's belly: the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>It is much that the Moor should be more than reason:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>but if she be less than an honest woman, she is</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>indeed more than I took her for.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>How every fool can play upon the word! I think the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>and discourse grow commendable in none only but</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>parrots. Go in, sirrah; bid them prepare for dinner.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That is done, sir; they have all stomachs.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>them prepare dinner.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That is done too, sir; only 'cover' is the word.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Will you cover then, sir?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Not so, sir, neither; I know my duty.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou show</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>tree, understand a plain man in his plain meaning:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>go to thy fellows; bid them cover the table, serve</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>For the table, sir, it shall be served in; for the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>meat, sir, it shall be covered; for your coming in</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>conceits shall govern.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O dear discretion, how his words are suited!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The fool hath planted in his memory</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>An army of good words; and I do know</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A many fools, that stand in better place,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And now, good sweet, say thy opinion,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Past all expressing. It is very meet</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The Lord Bassanio live an upright life;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For, having such a blessing in his lady,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He finds the joys of heaven here on earth;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And if on earth he do not mean it, then</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In reason he should never come to heaven</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And on the wager lay two earthly women,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And Portia one, there must be something else</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Pawn'd with the other, for the poor rude world</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath not her fellow.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Even such a husband</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, but ask my opinion too of that.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I will anon: first, let us go to dinner.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>' Then, howso'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I shall digest it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, I'll set you forth.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "</ACT>\n",
      "\n",
      "<ACT><TITLE>ACT IV</TITLE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Venice. A court of justice.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter the DUKE, the Magnificoes, ANTONIO, BASSANIO,\n",
      "GRATIANO, SALERIO, and others</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What, is Antonio here?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ready, so please your grace.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>uncapable of pity, void and empty</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From any dram of mercy.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I have heard</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And that no lawful means can carry me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My patience to his fury, and am arm'd</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The very tyranny and rage of his.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Go one, and call the Jew into the court.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALERIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He is ready at the door: he comes, my lord.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter SHYLOCK</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Make room, and let him stand before our face.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To the last hour of act; and then 'tis thought</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than is thy strange apparent cruelty;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And where thou now exact'st the penalty,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But, touch'd with human gentleness and love,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Forgive a moiety of the principal;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That have of late so huddled on his back,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Enow to press a royal merchant down</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And pluck commiseration of his state</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To offices of tender courtesy.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To have the due and forfeit of my bond:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you deny it, let the danger light</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon your charter and your city's freedom.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A weight of carrion flesh than to receive</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But, say, it is my humour: is it answer'd?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What if my house be troubled with a rat</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To have it baned? What, are you answer'd yet?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Some men there are love not a gaping pig;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Cannot contain their urine: for affection,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As there is no firm reason to be render'd,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why he cannot abide a gaping pig;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why he, a harmless necessary cat;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why he, a woollen bagpipe; but of force</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Must yield to such inevitable shame</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As to offend, himself being offended;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So can I give no reason, nor I will not,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I bear Antonio, that I follow thus</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To excuse the current of thy cruelty.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am not bound to please thee with my answers.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Do all men kill the things they do not love?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Hates any man the thing he would not kill?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Every offence is not a hate at first.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, think you question with the Jew:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You may as well go stand upon the beach</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And bid the main flood bate his usual height;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You may as well use question with the wolf</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You may as well forbid the mountain pines</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To wag their high tops and to make no noise,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You may as well do anything most hard,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As seek to soften that--than which what's harder?--</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Make no more offers, use no farther means,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But with all brief and plain conveniency</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>For thy three thousand ducats here is six.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What judgment shall I dread, doing</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Were in six parts and every part a ducat,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would not draw them; I would have my bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You have among you many a purchased slave,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You use in abject and in slavish parts,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Because you bought them: shall I say to you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be made as soft as yours and let their palates</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be season'd with such viands? You will answer</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you deny me, fie upon your law!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There is no force in the decrees of Venice.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I stand for judgment: answer; shall I have it?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon my power I may dismiss this court,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Whom I have sent for to determine this,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Come here to-day.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SALERIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My lord, here stays without</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A messenger with letters from the doctor,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>New come from Padua.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Bring us the letter; call the messenger.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Good cheer, Antonio! What, man, courage yet!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones and all,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am a tainted wether of the flock,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than to live still and write mine epitaph.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter NERISSA, dressed like a lawyer's clerk</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Came you from Padua, from Bellario?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>From both, my lord. Bellario greets your grace.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Presenting a letter</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And for thy life let justice be accused.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou almost makest me waver in my faith</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To hold opinion with Pythagoras,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That souls of animals infuse themselves</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Infused itself in thee; for thy desires</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To cureless ruin. I stand here for law.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This letter from Bellario doth commend</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A young and learned doctor to our court.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Where is he?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He attendeth here hard by,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>With all my heart. Some three or four of you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Go give him courteous conduct to this place.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>Clerk</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE><STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR></LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your grace shall understand that at the receipt of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>your letter I am very sick: but in the instant that</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>your messenger came, in loving visitation was with</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>me a young doctor of Rome; his name is Balthasar. I</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>acquainted him with the cause in controversy between</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>the Jew and Antonio the merchant: we turned o'er</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>many books together: he is furnished with my</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>opinion; which, bettered with his own learning, the</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>greatness whereof I cannot enough commend, comes</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>with him, at my importunity, to fill up your grace's</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>request in my stead. I beseech you, let his lack of</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>old a head. I leave him to your gracious</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>commendation.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And here, I take it, is the doctor come.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter PORTIA, dressed like a doctor of laws</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I did, my lord.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You are welcome: take your place.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are you acquainted with the difference</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That holds this present question in the court?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am informed thoroughly of the cause.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Is your name Shylock?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Shylock is my name.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Of a strange nature is the suit you follow;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Yet in such rule that the Venetian law</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Cannot impugn you as you do proceed.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You stand within his danger, do you not?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, so he says.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Do you confess the bond?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I do.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Then must the Jew be merciful.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>On what compulsion must I? tell me that.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The quality of mercy is not strain'd,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The throned monarch better than his crown;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The attribute to awe and majesty,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But mercy is above this sceptred sway;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It is an attribute to God himself;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And earthly power doth then show likest God's</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Though justice be thy plea, consider this,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That, in the course of justice, none of us</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To mitigate the justice of thy plea;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The penalty and forfeit of my bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Is he not able to discharge the money?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Yes, here I tender it for him in the court;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Yea, twice the sum: if that will not suffice,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If this will not suffice, it must appear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Wrest once the law to your authority:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To do a great right, do a little wrong,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And curb this cruel devil of his will.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>It must not be; there is no power in Venice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Can alter a decree established:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Twill be recorded for a precedent,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And many an error by the same example</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Will rush into the state: it cannot be.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, let me look upon the bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No, not for Venice.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, this bond is forfeit;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And lawfully by this the Jew may claim</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nearest the merchant's heart. Be merciful:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Take thrice thy money; bid me tear the bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>When it is paid according to the tenor.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It doth appear you are a worthy judge;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You know the law, your exposition</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath been most sound: I charge you by the law,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Proceed to judgment: by my soul I swear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There is no power in the tongue of man</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To alter me: I stay here on my bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Most heartily I do beseech the court</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To give the judgment.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why then, thus it is:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You must prepare your bosom for his knife.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O noble judge! O excellent young man!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>For the intent and purpose of the law</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath full relation to the penalty,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which here appeareth due upon the bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tis very true: O wise and upright judge!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How much more elder art thou than thy looks!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore lay bare your bosom.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, his breast:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So says the bond: doth it not, noble judge?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Nearest his heart:' those are the very words.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>It is so. Are there balance here to weigh</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The flesh?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I have them ready.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Is it so nominated in the bond?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>It is not so express'd: but what of that?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>'Twere good you do so much for charity.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You, merchant, have you any thing to say?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>But little: I am arm'd and well prepared.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For herein Fortune shows herself more kind</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than is her custom: it is still her use</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>An age of poverty; from which lingering penance</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of such misery doth she cut me off.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Commend me to your honourable wife:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Tell her the process of Antonio's end;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Whether Bassanio had not once a love.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Repent but you that you shall lose your friend,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And he repents not that he pays your debt;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll pay it presently with all my heart.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Antonio, I am married to a wife</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which is as dear to me as life itself;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But life itself, my wife, and all the world,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are not with me esteem'd above thy life:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Here to this devil, to deliver you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your wife would give you little thanks for that,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If she were by, to hear you make the offer.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would she were in heaven, so she could</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>'Tis well you offer it behind her back;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The wish would make else an unquiet house.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>These be the Christian husbands. I have a daughter;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Would any of the stock of Barrabas</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Had been her husband rather than a Christian!</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The court awards it, and the law doth give it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Most rightful judge!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The law allows it, and the court awards it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Tarry a little; there is something else.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unto the state of Venice.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Is that the law?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Thyself shalt see the act:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For, as thou urgest justice, be assured</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O learned judge! Mark, Jew: a learned judge!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And let the Christian go.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here is the money.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Soft!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The Jew shall have all justice; soft! no haste:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He shall have nothing but the penalty.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut'st more</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or less than a just pound, be it but so much</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As makes it light or heavy in the substance,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or the division of the twentieth part</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But in the estimation of a hair,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why doth the Jew pause? take thy forfeiture.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Give me my principal, and let me go.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I have it ready for thee; here it is.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He hath refused it in the open court:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He shall have merely justice and his bond.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Shall I not have barely my principal?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, then the devil give him good of it!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll stay no longer question.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Tarry, Jew:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The law hath yet another hold on you.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It is enacted in the laws of Venice,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If it be proved against an alien</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That by direct or indirect attempts</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He seek the life of any citizen,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shall seize one half his goods; the other half</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Comes to the privy coffer of the state;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And the offender's life lies in the mercy</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In which predicament, I say, thou stand'st;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For it appears, by manifest proceeding,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That indirectly and directly too</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou hast contrived against the very life</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of the defendant; and thou hast incurr'd</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The danger formerly by me rehearsed.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Thou hast not left the value of a cord;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That thou shalt see the difference of our spirits,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The other half comes to the general state,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which humbleness may drive unto a fine.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, for the state, not for Antonio.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You take my house when you do take the prop</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That doth sustain my house; you take my life</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When you do take the means whereby I live.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What mercy can you render him, Antonio?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A halter gratis; nothing else, for God's sake.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>So please my lord the duke and all the court</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To quit the fine for one half of his goods,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I am content; so he will let me have</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The other half in use, to render it,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon his death, unto the gentleman</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That lately stole his daughter:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Two things provided more, that, for this favour,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>He presently become a Christian;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The other, that he do record a gift,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Here in the court, of all he dies possess'd,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He shall do this, or else I do recant</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The pardon that I late pronounced here.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Art thou contented, Jew? what dost thou say?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am content.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Clerk, draw a deed of gift.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>SHYLOCK</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, give me leave to go from hence;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I am not well: send the deed after me,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I will sign it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Get thee gone, but do it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In christening shalt thou have two god-fathers:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To bring thee to the gallows, not the font.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit SHYLOCK</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I humbly do desire your grace of pardon:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I must away this night toward Padua,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And it is meet I presently set forth.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>DUKE</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am sorry that your leisure serves you not.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Antonio, gratify this gentleman,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For, in my mind, you are much bound to him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Duke and his train</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of grievous penalties; in lieu whereof,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>We freely cope your courteous pains withal.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And stand indebted, over and above,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In love and service to you evermore.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He is well paid that is well satisfied;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I, delivering you, am satisfied</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And therein do account myself well paid:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My mind was never yet more mercenary.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, know me when we meet again:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I wish you well, and so I take my leave.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Not as a fee: grant me two things, I pray you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Not to deny me, and to pardon me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You press me far, and therefore I will yield.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>To ANTONIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Give me your gloves, I'll wear them for your sake;</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>To BASSANIO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>And, for your love, I'll take this ring from you:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Do not draw back your hand; I'll take no more;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And you in love shall not deny me this.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This ring, good sir, alas, it is a trifle!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will not shame myself to give you this.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I will have nothing else but only this;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And now methinks I have a mind to it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>There's more depends on this than on the value.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And find it out by proclamation:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I see, sir, you are liberal in offers</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You taught me first to beg; and now methinks</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And when she put it on, she made me vow</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That I should neither sell nor give nor lose it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>An if your wife be not a mad-woman,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And know how well I have deserved the ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>She would not hold out enemy for ever,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Portia and Nerissa</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let his deservings and my love withal</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be valued against your wife's commandment.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unto Antonio's house: away! make haste.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit Gratiano</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Come, you and I will thither presently;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And in the morning early will we both</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Fly toward Belmont: come, Antonio.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II.  The same. A street.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter PORTIA and NERISSA</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And let him sign it: we'll away to-night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And be a day before our husbands home:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter GRATIANO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My Lord Bassanio upon more advice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Your company at dinner.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That cannot be:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>His ring I do accept most thankfully:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That will I do.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sir, I would speak with you.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Aside to PORTIA</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside to NERISSA</STAGEDIR>  Thou mayst, I warrant.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>We shall have old swearing</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That they did give the rings away to men;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Aloud</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "\n",
      "</ACT>\n",
      "\n",
      "<ACT><TITLE>ACT V</TITLE>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Belmont. Avenue to PORTIA'S house.</TITLE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter LORENZO and JESSICA</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And they did make no noise, in such a night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Where Cressid lay that night.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In such a night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And saw the lion's shadow ere himself</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And ran dismay'd away.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In such a night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Stood Dido with a willow in her hand</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To come again to Carthage.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In such a night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That did renew old AEson.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In such a night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And with an unthrift love did run from Venice</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>As far as Belmont.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In such a night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Stealing her soul with many vows of faith</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And ne'er a true one.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>In such a night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Slander her love, and he forgave it her.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I would out-night you, did no body come;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But, hark, I hear the footing of a man.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter STEPHANO</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Who comes so fast in silence of the night?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>STEPHANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A friend.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A friend! what friend? your name, I pray you, friend?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>STEPHANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Stephano is my name; and I bring word</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My mistress will before the break of day</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Be here at Belmont; she doth stray about</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For happy wedlock hours.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Who comes with her?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>STEPHANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>None but a holy hermit and her maid.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I pray you, is my master yet return'd?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He is not, nor we have not heard from him.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And ceremoniously let us prepare</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Some welcome for the mistress of the house.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter LAUNCELOT</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sola, sola! wo ha, ho! sola, sola!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Who calls?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sola! did you see Master Lorenzo?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Master Lorenzo, sola, sola!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Leave hollaing, man: here.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sola! where? where?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LAUNCELOT</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Tell him there's a post come from my master, with</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>his horn full of good news: my master will be here</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>ere morning.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And yet no matter: why should we go in?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Within the house, your mistress is at hand;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And bring your music forth into the air.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exit Stephano</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Here will we sit and let the sounds of music</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Become the touches of sweet harmony.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But in his motion like an angel sings,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Such harmony is in immortal souls;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But whilst this muddy vesture of decay</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.</LINE>\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter Musicians</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "<LINE>Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And draw her home with music.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Music</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>JESSICA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am never merry when I hear sweet music.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The reason is, your spirits are attentive:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For do but note a wild and wanton herd,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which is the hot condition of their blood;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or any air of music touch their ears,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But music for the time doth change his nature.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The man that hath no music in himself,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The motions of his spirit are dull as night</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And his affections dark as Erebus:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter PORTIA and NERISSA</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That light we see is burning in my hall.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How far that little candle throws his beams!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So shines a good deed in a naughty world.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>When the moon shone, we did not see the candle.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>So doth the greater glory dim the less:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A substitute shines brightly as a king</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unto the king be by, and then his state</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Empties itself, as doth an inland brook</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Into the main of waters. Music! hark!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>It is your music, madam, of the house.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nothing is good, I see, without respect:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When neither is attended, and I think</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The nightingale, if she should sing by day,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When every goose is cackling, would be thought</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No better a musician than the wren.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How many things by season season'd are</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To their right praise and true perfection!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And would not be awaked.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Music ceases</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>That is the voice,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or I am much deceived, of Portia.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By the bad voice.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Dear lady, welcome home.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>We have been praying for our husbands' healths,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are they return'd?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Madam, they are not yet;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But there is come a messenger before,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To signify their coming.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Go in, Nerissa;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Give order to my servants that they take</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No note at all of our being absent hence;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>A tucket sounds</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Your husband is at hand; I hear his trumpet:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>We are no tell-tales, madam; fear you not.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>This night methinks is but the daylight sick;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It looks a little paler: 'tis a day,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Such as the day is when the sun is hid.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Enter BASSANIO, ANTONIO, GRATIANO, and\n",
      "their followers</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>We should hold day with the Antipodes,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you would walk in absence of the sun.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Let me give light, but let me not be light;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And never be Bassanio so for me:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But God sort all! You are welcome home, my lord.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>This is the man, this is Antonio,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To whom I am so infinitely bound.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You should in all sense be much bound to him.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For, as I hear, he was much bound for you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No more than I am well acquitted of.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sir, you are very welcome to our house:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It must appear in other ways than words,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE><STAGEDIR>To NERISSA</STAGEDIR>  By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>A quarrel, ho, already! what's the matter?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That she did give me, whose posy was</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For all the world like cutler's poetry</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Upon a knife, 'Love me, and leave me not.'</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What talk you of the posy or the value?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You swore to me, when I did give it you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That you would wear it till your hour of death</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And that it should lie with you in your grave:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You should have been respective and have kept it.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>He will, an if he live to be a man.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, if a woman live to be a man.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No higher than thyself; the judge's clerk,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A prating boy, that begg'd it as a fee:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I could not for my heart deny it him.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>You were to blame, I must be plain with you,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To part so slightly with your wife's first gift:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I gave my love a ring and made him swear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Never to part with it; and here he stands;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR>  Why, I were best to cut my left hand off</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And swear I lost the ring defending it.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That took some pains in writing, he begg'd mine;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And neither man nor master would take aught</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But the two rings.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>What ring gave you my lord?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Not that, I hope, which you received of me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>If I could add a lie unto a fault,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I would deny it; but you see my finger</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Hath not the ring upon it; it is gone.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Even so void is your false heart of truth.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Until I see the ring.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nor I in yours</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Till I again see mine.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sweet Portia,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you did know to whom I gave the ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you did know for whom I gave the ring</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And would conceive for what I gave the ring</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And how unwillingly I left the ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When nought would be accepted but the ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You would abate the strength of your displeasure.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>If you had known the virtue of the ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or your own honour to contain the ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You would not then have parted with the ring.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What man is there so much unreasonable,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you had pleased to have defended it</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>To urge the thing held as a ceremony?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nerissa teaches me what to believe:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll die for't but some woman had the ring.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>No, by my honour, madam, by my soul,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No woman had it, but a civil doctor,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And begg'd the ring; the which I did deny him</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And suffer'd him to go displeased away;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Even he that did uphold the very life</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I was enforced to send it after him;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I was beset with shame and courtesy;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My honour would not let ingratitude</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For, by these blessed candles of the night,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Had you been there, I think you would have begg'd</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>The ring of me to give the worthy doctor.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And that which you did swear to keep for me,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I will become as liberal as you;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll not deny him any thing I have,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>No, not my body nor my husband's bed:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>If you do not, if I be left alone,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And I his clerk; therefore be well advised</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>How you do leave me to mine own protection.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, do you so; let not me take him, then;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sir, grieve not you; you are welcome notwithstanding.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And, in the hearing of these many friends,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Wherein I see myself--</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Mark you but that!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In both my eyes he doubly sees himself;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In each eye, one: swear by your double self,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And there's an oath of credit.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Nay, but hear me:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I never more will break an oath with thee.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I once did lend my body for his wealth;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Will never more break faith advisedly.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Then you shall be his surety. Give him this</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And bid him keep it better than the other.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Here, Lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For, by this ring, the doctor lay with me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In lieu of this last night did lie with me.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Why, this is like the mending of highways</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>In summer, where the ways are fair enough:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Here is a letter; read it at your leisure;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>It comes from Padua, from Bellario:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Nerissa there her clerk: Lorenzo here</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Shall witness I set forth as soon as you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And even but now return'd; I have not yet</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are welcome;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And I have better news in store for you</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Than you expect: unseal this letter soon;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There you shall find three of your argosies</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are richly come to harbour suddenly:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>You shall not know by what strange accident</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>I chanced on this letter.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>I am dumb.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Were you the doctor and I knew you not?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Unless he live until he be a man.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>BASSANIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sweet doctor, you shall be my bed-fellow:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>When I am absent, then lie with my wife.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>For here I read for certain that my ships</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Are safely come to road.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>How now, Lorenzo!</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>NERISSA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>There do I give to you and Jessica,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>After his death, of all he dies possess'd of.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>LORENZO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of starved people.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>PORTIA</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>It is almost morning,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And yet I am sure you are not satisfied</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Of these events at full. Let us go in;</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And charge us there upon inter'gatories,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>And we will answer all things faithfully.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "<SPEECH>\n",
      "<SPEAKER>GRATIANO</SPEAKER>\n",
      "<LINE>Let it be so: the first inter'gatory</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Whether till the next night she had rather stay,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Or go to bed now, being two hours to day:</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>But were the day come, I should wish it dark,</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>That I were couching with the doctor's clerk.</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing</LINE>\n",
      "<LINE>So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.</LINE>\n",
      "</SPEECH>\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>\n",
      "</SCENE>\n",
      "</ACT>\n",
      "</PLAY>\n",
      "\n",
      "<Element 'PLAY' at 0x0A924660>\n"
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       "<Element 'TITLE' at 0x0A9246F0>"
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   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant_file = nltk.data.find('corpora/shakespeare/merchant.xml')#shakespeare/merchant.xml\n",
    "#这部戏剧由标题、角色、一个场景的描述、字幕和五幕组成。每一幕都有一个标题和一些场景，每个场景由台词组成，台词由行组成，有四个层次嵌套的结构。\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "raw = open(merchant_file).read()\n",
    "\n",
    "print(raw)\n",
    "\n",
    "from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree\n",
    "merchant = ElementTree().parse(merchant_file) #ElementTree( ).parse( )对XML文件解析\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "print(merchant)\n",
    "\n",
    "merchant[0]\n",
    "\n",
    "\n"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 35,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'The Merchant of Venice'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 35,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant[0].text\n",
    "#text 该元素的文本内容(标签内的内容）\n",
    "\n"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 37,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
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     "data": {
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       "[<Element 'TITLE' at 0x0503B9F0>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONAE' at 0x0503BA50>,\n",
       " <Element 'SCNDESCR' at 0x051EBA50>,\n",
       " <Element 'PLAYSUBT' at 0x051EBA80>,\n",
       " <Element 'ACT' at 0x051EBAE0>,\n",
       " <Element 'ACT' at 0x05201C60>,\n",
       " <Element 'ACT' at 0x05220F90>,\n",
       " <Element 'ACT' at 0x0523E180>,\n",
       " <Element 'ACT' at 0x05254DE0>]"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 37,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant.getchildren() #\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 43,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "[<Element 'TITLE' at 0x0A681B10>,\n",
       " <Element 'SCENE' at 0x0A681B40>,\n",
       " <Element 'SCENE' at 0x0A675EA0>]"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 43,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant[-2].getchildren() "
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 57,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'ACT IV'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 57,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant[-2][0].text\n",
    "\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 45,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "<Element 'STAGEDIR' at 0x0A675F00>"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 45,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 46,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'Enter PORTIA and NERISSA'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 46,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant[-2][-1][1].text"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 47,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "[<Element 'SPEAKER' at 0x0A674900>, <Element 'LINE' at 0x0A674930>]"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 47,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant[-2][-1][-2].getchildren() "
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 48,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "[]"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 48,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant[-2][-1][1].getchildren() \n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 49,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "[<Element 'TITLE' at 0x0A924510>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A9243C0>,\n",
       " <Element 'PGROUP' at 0x0A924420>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A924210>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A9242A0>,\n",
       " <Element 'PGROUP' at 0x0A924270>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A9240C0>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A924120>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A924030>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A924090>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A924060>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A6BEF60>,\n",
       " <Element 'PGROUP' at 0x0A6BEFC0>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A6BED50>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A6BEEA0>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A6BEE40>,\n",
       " <Element 'PERSONA' at 0x0A6BEE10>]"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 49,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant[1].getchildren() \n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 51,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'\\n'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 51,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "merchant[1].text"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 59,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "Act 3 Scene 2 Speech 9: Let music sound while he doth make his choice;\n",
      "Act 3 Scene 2 Speech 9: Fading in music: that the comparison\n",
      "Act 3 Scene 2 Speech 9: And what is music then? Then music is\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 23: And bring your music forth into the air.\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 23: Here will we sit and let the sounds of music\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 23: And draw her home with music.\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 24: I am never merry when I hear sweet music.\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 25: Or any air of music touch their ears,\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 25: By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 25: But music for the time doth change his nature.\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 25: The man that hath no music in himself,\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 25: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 29: It is your music, madam, of the house.\n",
      "Act 5 Scene 1 Speech 32: No better a musician than the wren.\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "#层的元素有好几种类型。我们可以使用merchant.findall('ACT')遍历我们感兴趣的类型（如：幕）。\n",
    "#下面是一个做这种特定标记在每一个级别的嵌套搜索的例子：\n",
    "\n",
    "for i, act in enumerate(merchant.findall('ACT')):\n",
    "     for j, scene in enumerate(act.findall('SCENE')):       \n",
    "            for k, speech in enumerate(scene.findall('SPEECH')):\n",
    "                  for line in speech.findall('LINE'):\n",
    "                        if 'music' in str(line.text):\n",
    "                               print(\"Act %d Scene %d Speech %d: %s\" % (i+1, j+1, k+1, line.text))"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 61,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "[('PORTIA', 117),\n",
       " ('SHYLOCK', 79),\n",
       " ('BASSANIO', 73),\n",
       " ('GRATIANO', 48),\n",
       " ('ANTONIO', 47)]"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 61,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "from collections import Counter\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "speaker_seq = [s.text for s in merchant.findall('ACT/SCENE/SPEECH/SPEAKER')]\n",
    "#findall(‘ACT/SCENE/SPEECH/SPEAKER’)找到路径下所有的speaker，\n",
    "speaker_freq = Counter(speaker_seq)\n",
    "#用collections的Counter统计每个speaker出现的次数，选取top5\n",
    "top5 = speaker_freq.most_common(5)\n",
    "top5"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": []
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 75,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "<generator object bigrams at 0x0A62B660>\n",
      "     ANTO BASS GRAT  OTH PORT SHYL \n",
      "ANTO    0   11    4   11    9   12 \n",
      "BASS   10    0   11   10   26   16 \n",
      "GRAT    6    8    0   19    9    5 \n",
      " OTH    8   16   18  153   52   25 \n",
      "PORT    7   23   13   53    0   21 \n",
      "SHYL   15   15    2   26   21    0 \n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "from collections import defaultdict\n",
    "abbreviate = defaultdict(lambda: 'OTH')\n",
    "for speaker, _ in top5:\n",
    "     abbreviate[speaker] = speaker[:4]\n",
    "\n",
    "speaker_seq2 = [abbreviate[speaker] for speaker in speaker_seq]\n",
    "\n",
    "print(nltk.bigrams(speaker_seq2))\n",
    "cfd = nltk.ConditionalFreqDist(nltk.bigrams(speaker_seq2))\n",
    "cfd.tabulate()"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 76,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "from nltk.corpus import toolbox\n",
    "'''\n",
    "词汇工具：Toolbox\n",
    "可能最流行的语言学家用来管理数据的工具是Toolbox，以前叫做Shoebox，\n",
    "因为它用满满的档案卡片占据了语言学家的旧鞋盒。\n",
    "一个Toolbox 文件由一个大量条目的集合组成，其中每个条目由一个或多个字段组成。\n",
    "大多数字段都是可选的或重复的，\n",
    "这意味着这个词汇资源不能作为一个表格或电子表格来处理。\n",
    "'''\n",
    "lexicon = toolbox.xml('rotokas.dic')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 79,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "lx\n",
      "kaa\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "print(lexicon[3][0].tag)\n",
    "\n",
    "print(lexicon[3][0].text)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 80,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
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       "['kaa',\n",
       " 'kaa',\n",
       " 'kaa',\n",
       " 'kaakaaro',\n",
       " 'kaakaaviko',\n",
       " 'kaakaavo',\n",
       " 'kaakaoko',\n",
       " 'kaakasi',\n",
       " 'kaakau',\n",
       " 'kaakauko',\n",
       " 'kaakito',\n",
       " 'kaakuupato',\n",
       " 'kaaova',\n",
       " 'kaapa',\n",
       " 'kaapea',\n",
       " 'kaapie',\n",
       " 'kaapie',\n",
       " 'kaapiepato',\n",
       " 'kaapisi',\n",
       " 'kaapisivira',\n",
       " 'kaapo',\n",
       " 'kaapopato',\n",
       " 'kaara',\n",
       " 'kaare',\n",
       " 'kaareko',\n",
       " 'kaarekopie',\n",
       " 'kaareto',\n",
       " 'kaareva',\n",
       " 'kaava',\n",
       " 'kaavaaua',\n",
       " 'kaaveaka',\n",
       " 'kaaveakapie',\n",
       " 'kaaveakapievira',\n",
       " 'kaaveakavira',\n",
       " 'kae',\n",
       " 'kae',\n",
       " 'kaekae',\n",
       " 'kaekae',\n",
       " 'kaekaearo',\n",
       " 'kaekaeo',\n",
       " 'kaekaesoto',\n",
       " 'kaekaevira',\n",
       " 'kaekeru',\n",
       " 'kaepaa',\n",
       " 'kaepie',\n",
       " 'kaepie',\n",
       " 'kaepievira',\n",
       " 'kaereasi',\n",
       " 'kaereasivira',\n",
       " 'kaetu',\n",
       " 'kaetupie',\n",
       " 'kaetuvira',\n",
       " 'kaeviro',\n",
       " 'kagave',\n",
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       " 'kaiea',\n",
       " 'kaikaio',\n",
       " 'kaio',\n",
       " 'kaipori',\n",
       " 'kaiporipie',\n",
       " 'kaiporivira',\n",
       " 'kairi',\n",
       " 'kairiro',\n",
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       " 'kaitutu',\n",
       " 'kaitutupie',\n",
       " 'kaitutuvira',\n",
       " 'kakae',\n",
       " 'kakae',\n",
       " 'kakae',\n",
       " 'kakaevira',\n",
       " 'kakapikoa',\n",
       " 'kakapikoto',\n",
       " 'kakapu',\n",
       " 'kakapua',\n",
       " 'kakara',\n",
       " 'kakarapaia',\n",
       " 'kakarau',\n",
       " 'kakarera',\n",
       " 'kakata',\n",
       " 'kakate',\n",
       " 'kakatuara',\n",
       " 'kakau',\n",
       " 'kakauoa',\n",
       " 'kakavea',\n",
       " 'kakavoro',\n",
       " 'kakavu',\n",
       " 'kakeoto',\n",
       " 'kaki',\n",
       " 'kaki',\n",
       " 'kakiaki',\n",
       " 'kakiri',\n",
       " 'kakiua',\n",
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       " 'kakupaa',\n",
       " 'kakuparei',\n",
       " 'kakupato',\n",
       " 'kakupie',\n",
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       " 'kakutauo',\n",
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       " 'kakuvira',\n",
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       " 'kaokaoara',\n",
       " 'kaokaoto',\n",
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       " 'kapa',\n",
       " 'kapaava',\n",
       " 'kapai',\n",
       " 'kapara',\n",
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       " 'kapatau',\n",
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       " 'kapiaavira',\n",
       " 'kapikapi',\n",
       " 'kapiro',\n",
       " 'kapiroa',\n",
       " 'kapiroko',\n",
       " 'kapisi',\n",
       " 'kapisito',\n",
       " 'kapiu',\n",
       " 'kapiua',\n",
       " 'kapo',\n",
       " 'kapoa',\n",
       " 'kapokao',\n",
       " 'kapokapo',\n",
       " 'kapokapoa',\n",
       " 'kapokapora',\n",
       " 'kapokaporo',\n",
       " 'kapokari',\n",
       " 'kapokarito',\n",
       " 'kapokoa',\n",
       " 'kapoo',\n",
       " 'kapooto',\n",
       " 'kapoovira',\n",
       " 'kapopaa',\n",
       " 'kaporo',\n",
       " 'kaporo',\n",
       " 'kaporopa',\n",
       " 'kaporoto',\n",
       " 'kapoto',\n",
       " 'kapu',\n",
       " 'kapua',\n",
       " 'kapua',\n",
       " 'kapuapato',\n",
       " 'kapuapie',\n",
       " 'kapuasisi',\n",
       " 'kapupie',\n",
       " 'kapupiea',\n",
       " 'kapupiepaa',\n",
       " 'kapuu',\n",
       " 'kapuupie',\n",
       " 'kapuupiepa',\n",
       " 'kara',\n",
       " 'kara',\n",
       " 'karaava',\n",
       " 'karakarao',\n",
       " 'karakaraoa',\n",
       " 'karakaraoto',\n",
       " 'karakaraovira',\n",
       " 'karakaroto',\n",
       " 'karakuku',\n",
       " 'karaova',\n",
       " 'karapi',\n",
       " 'karapivira',\n",
       " 'karara',\n",
       " 'karata',\n",
       " 'karato',\n",
       " 'karavau',\n",
       " 'karavisi',\n",
       " 'karavisito',\n",
       " 'karavuru',\n",
       " 'kare',\n",
       " 'kare',\n",
       " 'karekare',\n",
       " 'karekare',\n",
       " 'karekarererava',\n",
       " 'karekareto',\n",
       " 'kareke',\n",
       " 'karekepie',\n",
       " 'karekova',\n",
       " 'kareo',\n",
       " 'kareovira',\n",
       " 'karepie',\n",
       " 'karepieto',\n",
       " 'karepirie',\n",
       " 'kari',\n",
       " 'karia',\n",
       " 'kariava',\n",
       " 'karikari',\n",
       " 'karirapa',\n",
       " 'karisito',\n",
       " 'karivai',\n",
       " 'karivaito',\n",
       " 'karivara',\n",
       " 'karo',\n",
       " 'karokaropo',\n",
       " 'karopato',\n",
       " 'karopo',\n",
       " 'karot',\n",
       " 'karoto',\n",
       " 'karova',\n",
       " 'karu',\n",
       " 'karuka',\n",
       " 'karukaru',\n",
       " 'karukava',\n",
       " 'karuru',\n",
       " 'karutu',\n",
       " 'karuvira',\n",
       " 'kasi',\n",
       " 'kasi',\n",
       " 'kasi',\n",
       " 'kasiarao',\n",
       " 'kasiava',\n",
       " 'kasikasi',\n",
       " 'kasikasiua',\n",
       " 'kasipie',\n",
       " 'kasipu',\n",
       " 'kasipupie',\n",
       " 'kasipuvira',\n",
       " 'kasirao',\n",
       " 'kasiraopie',\n",
       " 'kasiraovira',\n",
       " 'kasiu',\n",
       " 'kasiura',\n",
       " 'kasivari',\n",
       " 'kasuari',\n",
       " 'kata',\n",
       " 'katai',\n",
       " 'kataitoarei',\n",
       " 'katakatai',\n",
       " 'katakataivira',\n",
       " 'kataraua',\n",
       " 'katarauto',\n",
       " 'katavira',\n",
       " 'katokato',\n",
       " 'katokatoto',\n",
       " 'katokatovira',\n",
       " 'katokoi',\n",
       " 'katopato',\n",
       " 'katoto',\n",
       " 'katuara',\n",
       " 'katuarato',\n",
       " 'katukatu',\n",
       " 'katuta',\n",
       " 'kau',\n",
       " 'kaukau',\n",
       " 'kaukaupie',\n",
       " 'kaukauvira',\n",
       " 'kaukovo',\n",
       " 'kauo',\n",
       " 'kauokauo',\n",
       " 'kaureo',\n",
       " 'kaureoto',\n",
       " 'kausiopa',\n",
       " 'kausiovira',\n",
       " 'kava',\n",
       " 'kavakavau',\n",
       " 'kavatao',\n",
       " 'kavatara',\n",
       " 'kavau',\n",
       " 'kavau',\n",
       " 'kavau asiava',\n",
       " 'kave',\n",
       " 'kavee',\n",
       " 'kaveepaa',\n",
       " 'kaverui',\n",
       " 'kaveruko',\n",
       " 'kavesi',\n",
       " 'kavikavi',\n",
       " 'kavikaviru',\n",
       " 'kavikaviru',\n",
       " 'kaviko',\n",
       " 'kavikoa',\n",
       " 'kaviru',\n",
       " 'kaviru',\n",
       " 'kaviruto',\n",
       " 'kaviruvira',\n",
       " 'kavo',\n",
       " 'kavokavo',\n",
       " 'kavokavoa',\n",
       " 'kavokavoto',\n",
       " 'kavora',\n",
       " 'kavorato',\n",
       " 'kavori',\n",
       " 'kavori',\n",
       " 'kavorou',\n",
       " 'kavovoa',\n",
       " 'kavovovira',\n",
       " 'kavu',\n",
       " 'kavu',\n",
       " 'kavuava',\n",
       " 'kavupie',\n",
       " 'kavura',\n",
       " 'kavurao',\n",
       " 'kavusi',\n",
       " 'kavuvo',\n",
       " 'kea',\n",
       " 'keakea',\n",
       " 'keakeato',\n",
       " 'keari',\n",
       " 'kearito',\n",
       " 'keavira',\n",
       " 'kee',\n",
       " 'keekee',\n",
       " 'keekeepa',\n",
       " 'keekeeri',\n",
       " 'keekeerito',\n",
       " 'keera',\n",
       " 'keeriva',\n",
       " 'keesi',\n",
       " 'keetaa',\n",
       " 'keevuru',\n",
       " 'keevuruvira',\n",
       " 'kegi',\n",
       " 'kei',\n",
       " 'keke',\n",
       " 'keke',\n",
       " 'kekepie',\n",
       " 'kekeputu',\n",
       " 'kekeputuvira',\n",
       " 'kekeraokovira',\n",
       " 'kekesopa',\n",
       " 'kekevoto',\n",
       " 'kekevotovira',\n",
       " 'kekira',\n",
       " 'keo',\n",
       " 'keoka',\n",
       " 'keopa',\n",
       " 'keovira',\n",
       " 'kepa',\n",
       " 'kepa toupato',\n",
       " 'kepetai',\n",
       " 'kepi',\n",
       " 'kepia',\n",
       " 'kepikepi',\n",
       " 'kepiko',\n",
       " 'kepiriko',\n",
       " 'kepiro',\n",
       " 'kepisi',\n",
       " 'kepisiva',\n",
       " 'kepita',\n",
       " 'kepitai',\n",
       " 'kepito',\n",
       " 'kepo',\n",
       " 'kepoi',\n",
       " 'keposi',\n",
       " 'kepoto',\n",
       " 'kera',\n",
       " 'kerakera',\n",
       " 'kerari',\n",
       " 'keraria',\n",
       " 'kerau',\n",
       " 'kerauto',\n",
       " 'keravisi',\n",
       " 'keravisia',\n",
       " 'keravo',\n",
       " 'kereaka',\n",
       " 'kerekoi',\n",
       " 'kerere',\n",
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   ],
   "source": [
    "[lexeme.text.lower() for lexeme in lexicon.findall('record/lx')]"
   ]
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 95,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
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     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "<record>\n",
      "      <lx>kaa</lx>\n",
      "      <ps>N</ps>\n",
      "      <pt>MASC</pt>\n",
      "      <cl>isi</cl>\n",
      "      <ge>cooking banana</ge>\n",
      "      <tkp>banana bilong kukim</tkp>\n",
      "      <pt>itoo</pt>\n",
      "      <sf>FLORA</sf>\n",
      "      <dt>12/Aug/2005</dt>\n",
      "      <ex>Taeavi iria kaa isi kovopaueva kaparapasia.</ex>\n",
      "      <xp>Taeavi i bin planim gaden banana bilong kukim tasol long paia.</xp>\n",
      "      <xe>Taeavi planted banana in order to cook it.</xe>\n",
      "    </record>"
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    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "import sys\n",
    "from nltk.util import elementtree_indent\n",
    "from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "elementtree_indent(lexicon,level=1)\n",
    "\n",
    "tree = ElementTree(lexicon[3])\n",
    "tree.write(sys.stdout, encoding='unicode') "
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   "metadata": {},
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     "name": "stdout",
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     "text": [
      "Help on function elementtree_indent in module nltk.util:\n",
      "\n",
      "elementtree_indent(elem, level=0)\n",
      "    Recursive function to indent an ElementTree._ElementInterface\n",
      "    used for pretty printing. Run indent on elem and then output\n",
      "    in the normal way.\n",
      "    \n",
      "    :param elem: element to be indented. will be modified.\n",
      "    :type elem: ElementTree._ElementInterface\n",
      "    :param level: level of indentation for this element\n",
      "    :type level: nonnegative integer\n",
      "    :rtype:   ElementTree._ElementInterface\n",
      "    :return:  Contents of elem indented to reflect its structure\n",
      "\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "help(elementtree_indent)\n"
   ]
  },
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      "  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>\n",
      "<table>\n",
      "  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>CLASS</td><td>child</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>\n",
      "<table>\n",
      "  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>CLASS</td><td>child</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakaevira</td><td>ADV</td><td>small-like</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>\n",
      "<table>\n",
      "  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>CLASS</td><td>child</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakaevira</td><td>ADV</td><td>small-like</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapikoa</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>\n",
      "<table>\n",
      "  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>CLASS</td><td>child</td></tr>\n",
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      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapu</td><td>V</td><td>place in sling for purpose of carrying</td></tr>\n",
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      "  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>CLASS</td><td>child</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakaevira</td><td>ADV</td><td>small-like</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapikoa</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapikoto</td><td>N</td><td>newborn baby</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapu</td><td>V</td><td>place in sling for purpose of carrying</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapua</td><td>N</td><td>sling for lifting</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakara</td><td>N</td><td>arm band</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>Kakarapaia</td><td>N</td><td>village name</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>\n",
      "<table>\n",
      "  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakae</td><td>CLASS</td><td>child</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakaevira</td><td>ADV</td><td>small-like</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapikoa</td><td>???</td><td>small</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapikoto</td><td>N</td><td>newborn baby</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapu</td><td>V</td><td>place in sling for purpose of carrying</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakapua</td><td>N</td><td>sling for lifting</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakara</td><td>N</td><td>arm band</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>Kakarapaia</td><td>N</td><td>village name</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>  <tr><td>kakarau</td><td>N</td><td>frog</td></tr>\n",
      "</table>\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "html = \"<table>\\n\"\n",
    "'''\n",
    "借助HTML 元素<table>、<tr>(表格的行)以及<td>(表格数据)，对toolbox中数据格式化\n",
    "'''\n",
    "for entry in lexicon[70:80]:\n",
    "     lx = entry.findtext('lx')\n",
    "     ps = entry.findtext('ps')\n",
    "     ge = entry.findtext('ge')\n",
    "     html += \"  <tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>\\n\" % (lx, ps, ge)\n",
    "     html += \"</table>\"\n",
    "     print(html)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 7,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "13.635955056179775\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "from nltk.corpus import toolbox\n",
    "lexicon = toolbox.xml('rotokas.dic')\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "print(sum(len(entry) for entry in lexicon) / len(lexicon))\n"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 9,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "\\lx kaeviro\n",
      "\\ps V\n",
      "\\pt A\n",
      "\\ge lift off\n",
      "\\ge take off\n",
      "\\tkp go antap\n",
      "\\sc MOTION\n",
      "\\vx 1\n",
      "\\nt used to describe action of plane\n",
      "\\dt 03/Jun/2005\n",
      "\\ex Pita kaeviroroe kepa kekesia oa vuripierevo kiuvu.\n",
      "\\xp Pita i go antap na lukim haus win i bagarapim.\n",
      "\\xe Peter went to look at the house that the wind destroyed.\n",
      "\\cv CVVCVCV\n",
      "\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "import nltk\n",
    "from xml.etree.ElementTree import SubElement\n",
    "import re\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "'''\n",
    "将辅音和元音的字符串映射到相应的CV 序列，即：kakapua 将映射到CVCVCVV。这种映射有四个步骤。首先，\n",
    "1，将字符串转换为小写，那么将所有非字母字符[^a-z]用下划\u000b",
    "   代替。下一步，\n",
    "2，将所有元音替换为V。\n",
    "3，所有不是V 或下划线的必定是一个辅音，所以我们将它替换\u000b",
    "   为C\n",
    "   扫描词汇，在每个lx 字段后面添加一个新的cv 字段。\n",
    "'''\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "def cv(s):\n",
    "    s = s.lower()#将字符串转换为小写\n",
    "    s = re.sub(r'[^a-z]',     r'_', s)#将所有非字母字符[^a-z]用下划代替\n",
    "    s = re.sub(r'[aeiou]',    r'V', s)#将所有元音替换为V\n",
    "    s = re.sub(r'[^V_]',      r'C', s)#所有不是V 或下划线的必定是一个辅音，所以我们将它替换为C\n",
    "    return (s)\n",
    "\n",
    "def add_cv_field(entry):\n",
    "#扫描词汇，在每个lx 字段后面添加一个新的cv 字段。\n",
    "    for field in entry:\n",
    "        if field.tag == 'lx':\n",
    "            cv_field = SubElement(entry, 'cv')\n",
    "            cv_field.text = cv(field.text)\n",
    "lexicon = toolbox.xml('rotokas.dic')\n",
    "add_cv_field(lexicon[53])\n",
    "print(nltk.toolbox.to_sfm_string(lexicon[53]))"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 29,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "13.635955056179775\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "from nltk.corpus import toolbox\n",
    "lexicon = toolbox.xml('rotokas.dic')\n",
    "print(sum(len(entry) for entry in lexicon) / len(lexicon))"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 12,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "<nltk.parse.recursivedescent.RecursiveDescentParser object at 0x0A141EF0>\n",
      "- lx:ps:ge:tkp:sf:nt:dt:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe\n",
      "- lx:rt:ps:ge:tkp:nt:dt:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe\n",
      "- lx:ps:ge:tkp:nt:dt:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe\n",
      "- lx:ps:ge:tkp:nt:sf:dt\n",
      "- lx:ps:ge:tkp:dt:cmt:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe\n",
      "- lx:ps:ge:ge:ge:tkp:cmt:dt:ex:xp:xe\n",
      "- lx:rt:ps:ge:ge:tkp:dt\n",
      "- lx:rt:ps:ge:eng:eng:eng:ge:tkp:tkp:dt:cmt:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe\n",
      "- lx:rt:ps:ge:tkp:dt:ex:xp:xe\n",
      "- lx:ps:ge:ge:tkp:dt:ex:xp:xe:ex:xp:xe\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "'''\n",
    "文法使用我们在第8 章看到的CFG 的格式。\n",
    "这样的文法模型隐含Toolbox 条目的嵌套结构，\n",
    "建立一个树状结构，树的叶子是单独的字段名。\n",
    "我们遍历条目并报告它们与文法的一致性，\n",
    "。那些被文法接受的在前面加一个“+，那些被文法接受的在前面加一个“-”。\n",
    "在开发这样一个文法的过程中，它可以帮助过滤掉一些标签\n",
    "'''\n",
    "\n",
    "grammar = nltk.CFG.fromstring('''\n",
    "  S -> Head PS Glosses Comment Date Sem_Field Examples\n",
    "  Head -> Lexeme Root\n",
    "  Lexeme -> \"lx\"\n",
    "  Root -> \"rt\" |\n",
    "  PS -> \"ps\"\n",
    "  Glosses -> Gloss Glosses |\n",
    "  Gloss -> \"ge\" | \"tkp\" | \"eng\"\n",
    "  Date -> \"dt\"\n",
    "  Sem_Field -> \"sf\"\n",
    "  Examples -> Example Ex_Pidgin Ex_English Examples |\n",
    "  Example -> \"ex\"\n",
    "  Ex_Pidgin -> \"xp\"\n",
    "  Ex_English -> \"xe\"\n",
    "  Comment -> \"cmt\" | \"nt\" |\n",
    "  ''')\n",
    "\n",
    "def validate_lexicon(grammar, lexicon, ignored_tags):\n",
    "    rd_parser = nltk.RecursiveDescentParser(grammar)\n",
    "    print(rd_parser)\n",
    "    for entry in lexicon:\n",
    "        marker_list = [field.tag for field in entry if field.tag not in ignored_tags]\n",
    "        if list(rd_parser.parse(marker_list)):\n",
    "            print(\"+\", ':'.join(marker_list)) \n",
    "        else:\n",
    "            print(\"-\", ':'.join(marker_list)) \n",
    "\n",
    "lexicon = toolbox.xml('rotokas.dic')[10:20]\n",
    "ignored_tags = ['arg', 'dcsv', 'pt', 'vx'] \n",
    "validate_lexicon(grammar, lexicon, ignored_tags)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 17,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "lfnt\n",
      "bskws\n",
      "nclr\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "#语言记录的示例\n",
    "mappings = [('ph', 'f'), ('ght', 't'), ('^kn', 'n'), ('qu', 'kw'),\n",
    "          ('[aeiou]+', 'a'), (r'(.)\\1', r'\\1')]\n",
    "#易混淆字母序列和发音的映射\n",
    "def signature(word):\n",
    "    for patt, repl in mappings:\n",
    "           word = re.sub(patt, repl, word)\n",
    "    pieces = re.findall('[^aeiou]+', word)\n",
    "    return ''.join(char for piece in pieces for char in sorted(piece))[:8]\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "print(signature('illefent'))\n",
    "\n",
    "print(signature('ebsekwieous'))\n",
    "\n",
    "print(signature('nuculerr'))\n"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
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